In Earth Island Journal, Jason Mark interviews Naomi Klein September 5, 2013 “The book I am writing is arguing that our responses to climate change can rebuild the public sphere, can strengthen our communities, can have work with dignity. We can address the financial crisis and the ecological crisis at the same. I believe that. [...]

On May 6, at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA, David Suzuki gave a lecture titled “Time is Running Out: Ecology or Economics?” After an hour of eloquently describing our environmental predicament, in the Q & A period, students asked for ideas on how to face the future, and Suzuki praised the Transition movement as [...]

Global climate change is a reality,  and at the same time energy prices continue to rise. As these trends will fundamentally change our communities, how can municipalities work to increase resilience – to ensure that communities can withstand potential shocks and changes?  What types of responses address both climate change and rising energy prices? This manual explores these [...]

The Citizen Science of Climate Change: We are not bystanders By Caren Cooper The coordinated, dedicated, collective efforts embedded in family traditions and daily practices as seen in citizen science illustrate the attributes and possibilities we need to find the best path forward. Superstorm Sandy prior to the 2012 Presidential election put climate change on [...]

Resisting Climate Reality: Bill McKibben Resisting Climate Reality (A review of Smart Solutions to Climate Change:  Comparing Costs and Benefits. edited by Bjørn Lomborg, Cambridge University Press) by Bill McKibben[1] 1. We are at a dramatic moment in the story of global warming.  We’ve known, as a society, about the climate change crisis for just [...]

connect-the-dots This is a two minute video produced  by 350.org. It shows significant weather events happening around the world as a result of climate change and calls for world-wide action on climate change.

Middle class power is illusory; the top 1% make the big decisions. by George Lakey Bill McKibben’s July Rolling Stone article attracted enormous attention for his proposal to step up the fight against the fossil-fuels industry in the struggle to forestall global warming. To identify a clear opponent and mobilize power against it is, of [...]

The planet can be cooled a whopping 0.5º  with fast action to reduce air pollution from coal-fired power plants, gas fracking, diesel trucks and biomass burning, recent studies show. All it would take is a few regulations and a few tens of millions of dollars over the next two decades to bring dramatic reductions in [...]

The everyday denial of climate change From the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Kari Marie Norgaard, July 2012 Ordinary people respond to the threat of climate change, like that of nuclear war, by deflecting disturbing information and instead focusing on more manageable topics. Addressing climate change is not primarily a question of how to educate the public [...]

Synopsis Tim Bennett, middle-class white guy, started waking up to the global environmental nightmare in the mid-1980s. But life was so busy with raising kids and pursuing the American dream that he never got around to acting on his concerns. Until now… Bennett journeys from complacency to consciousness in his feature-length documentary, What a Way [...]